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New Updated Corrrupt CDs List Now Available
These are the music CDs that either:
 1. Prevent you from copying it for personal use or
2. Prevent you from playing on computerized devices (computers, DVD players, game consoles like PlayStation, MP3 players, consumer CD duplicators, high-end stereo equipment and car CD players).
3. In the United States, Canada and the UK, these CDs are not marked as "copy-protected" on the outside. Once you buy it, you cannot return it for your money back, you can only exchange it and hope.
Some CDs actually use batch protection in which some cds are protected, others aren't. This adds to the confusion in determining which CDs are "corrupted". This is only used in CDs that aren't marked. This allows the recording industry to deflect comments the cds are corrupt. These are marked with a red star, like this:  According to the major labels, they have released just a few "corrupted" cds in the US, but the reports keep coming in. The most recent CD for Celine Dion actually crashes computers. Of course Sony says they are only available in Europe.
I can't wait until I inadvertantly find a corrupted cd. If it is not marked, there will be a fraud complant filed with the FTC. Not just against the label who produced the cd, but against the retailer as well. Are you listening Wal-Mart? Best Buy? Virgin?, Tower? Tell the labels you don't want the crap in your store. To represent a corrupted cd as a music cd, is fraud. There are Federal laws and State Laws that prohibit this. In many areas it's called theft by deception, and carries jailtime with it. Remember MS. Rosen, all laws apply here, not just those you and movie industry bought and paid for.
Tell your retailer that you will not purchase any CD that uses copy protection or will not play on your computer or in your dvd player. They are not real audio cds, and that they open the store up to a fraud complaint, not to mention returned merchandise. The music industry seems hell bent on ignoring what the consumer wants, maybe they will listen to the retailers.
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User Comments
(These do not necessarily reflect the beliefs of this site)
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Cryxan
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Date: April 6, 2002 @ 4:28 PM
The red star is very appropriate. It is the symbol of Communism. |
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mtbatol
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Date: April 6, 2002 @ 5:29 PM
the red star shows that the album ain't nuttin but da devil :P:O:mad::O:poo: |
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Frawgster
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Date: April 6, 2002 @ 6:52 PM
These CDs are HORSESHIT! I seriously hope that they are met with EXTREME anger and frustration. I'm glad I've bought only one CD in the past 7 months. |
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creativetim
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Date: April 6, 2002 @ 7:12 PM
Good point Cryxan. |
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theguppykillers
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Date: April 6, 2002 @ 7:15 PM
wow theres alot of them! |
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creativetim
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Date: April 6, 2002 @ 7:16 PM
It appears so Russ. |
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fatchuck
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Date: April 6, 2002 @ 7:28 PM
Actually, speaking as the source for Corrupt CDs worldwide, you may wish to check out the original list that's updated daily. You can find it at my site at http://www.fatchucks.com .
Additionally, if you're aware of any corrupt CDs that you may own, feel free to submit them here: http://www.fatchucks.com/corruptcds/submit.html . You'll be given the opportunity to join in a potential class-action lawsuit down the road if you live in the U.S.A.
Cheers,
Chuck |
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W-B
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Date: April 6, 2002 @ 9:00 PM
The ultimate example of paranoid selfishness on the part of the industry. Certainly anybody who places such emphasis on so-called "copy protection" believes that the average consumer cannot be trusted with ANY "unprotected" work. They might just as well take a piece of sandpaper, cut it to the size of regular CD's per the specs thereof, and call THAT a CD. Is their paranoia about "piracy" such that they believe they are justified in throwing the red-book audio CD standards out the window? |
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weaponzero
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Date: April 6, 2002 @ 10:15 PM
¤ Bush: Golden State (WEA/Atlantic)
¤ Fear Factory: Digimortal (Unknown)
¤ Staind: Break The Cycle (WEA/Elektra)
¤ Rob Zombie: Sinister Urge (Universal/Geffen)
¤ Linkin Park: Hybrid Theory (Belgium, WEA/Warner Brothers)
¤ Get Up Kids: Something To Write Home About (TVT/Vagrant)
¤ Incubus: Make Yourself (Sony/Epic)
¤ Incubus: Morning View (Sony/Epic)
¤ System of a Down: Toxicity (Sony/Columbia)
¤ Tool: Lateralus (BMG/Volcano/Pavement)
all of those work 100% fine.
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weaponzero
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Date: April 6, 2002 @ 10:17 PM
by work i mean work in my computer, ripping, in my car (cdmp3 player), and if you stare at the disc long enough it starts playing music automatically. |
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thumbtack
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Date: April 6, 2002 @ 10:59 PM
Fatchucks is the ultimate resource for corrupted cds and if you click on the link on boycott-riaa to submit a corrupted cd, it goes directly to fatchucks. The list on boycot is also from Fatchucks..My buddy Check Heffner does a great job, of collecting at posting and thats why I decided to send the submissions I get to there. NO point in diluting the information, or running the risk of missing one. |
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thumbtack
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Date: April 6, 2002 @ 11:00 PM
Want to see Fatchuck? http://enquirer.com/editions/2002/03/01/chuck_zoom.jpg |
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thumbtack
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Date: April 6, 2002 @ 11:12 PM
Weaponzero...I looked at a cople of the ones you list as fine and they may be or not...They are listed with the star, which means some will some won't work. I expect this is because they pay by cd to use the technology that protects them..the whole purpose is to create confusion.... |
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mtbatol
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Date: April 6, 2002 @ 11:19 PM
Would be nice if some televised news publication would do a story on these idiots. With no major tv coverage to expose them they'll slide under everyone's noses with the cdpta (whatever the acronym is) bill and screw everybody. No real media coverage (assuming that it doesn't tell half assed story portraying the internet as complete corrupt piracy haven) then lack of knowledge until they finally have a strangle hold affecting the people who evolve to the convience of going digital in entertainment. |
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W-B
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Date: April 7, 2002 @ 4:18 AM
Funny about that mention of the media. Consider that one of the multinational corporations, AOL Time Warner, has their fingers in every pie possible: in the Internet (AOL, natch); in the news media (Time, CNN); in the movies (Warner Bros. Pictures); and of course, in the recording industry (Warner Music). So it sort of figures they are among those pushing this CBDTPA c**p, which will doubtless have the effect of bringing the U.S. down to the level of a Third World banana republic where there is NO competition or free-enterprise system and everything (literally) is controlled with an iron fist by a handful of multinational elites who run the whole show. That, plus instituting a new feudalism where everything is selfishly squirreled away as in the Dark Ages-era monasteries. And this whole thing of emphasizing secrecy in the process of developing new digital technology sort of gives you an idea of the paranoid, contemptuous, disdainful mindset of these "content-industry" moguls.
And as I said, everyone from these multinational corporations to their politician puppets and all in between, are so paranoid and distrustful (I wouldn't use terms like "idiot" except to apply to those who uncritically and unquestionably swallow the industry's vicious anti-consumer propaganda whole) that I have no doubt they would go for a course of action tantamount to treating a cut on your finger by amputating your entire hand. |
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weaponzero
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Date: April 7, 2002 @ 10:50 AM
so nobody can explain to me where the music is coming from when i stare at them long enough? SHUT UP. YOU DON'T CONTROL ME. STOP TELLING ME TO BURN THINGS |
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smelv1n
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Date: April 7, 2002 @ 12:00 PM
blaaah!
buying one of those corrupted cds would only be fun if i was in a place to start something, but being a 17 kid, who the fuck is gonna listen to me? the vendor *might* give me a new cd or store credit or something, but anybody else will just tell me to shut the fuck up, cause if i was an adult that didn't know what was going on and some kid came whining about not being able to play his cd in his mp3 player, i'd be all like "what the fuck are you mumbling about bitch? play your cds in your cd player than, you stupid kid!"
and the vendor would be able to say he had no clue that the cds were corrupt, just like i didn't know, and it would probably end there, cause why the fuck would he want to go to the trouble of all that shit. |
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milladrive
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Date: April 7, 2002 @ 4:27 PM
fatchuck rules, and this is bullshit. |
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princess-angry
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Date: April 7, 2002 @ 5:04 PM
too many.... totally dance works fine... I played it in an aiwa dvd player just fine... and Linkin park just won't work in dvd players..... tried it in the most exensive dvd player there at Circuit city and still won't work... I tried to play it in an aiwa and it worked.... one with cd-r and mp3 cd playback.... the xd-dv370..... that was only for a few secs...... I really don't care for LP too much since I repeated that cd a million times....... oh well.... ;) it works in aiwa's!!!! |
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princess-angry
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Date: April 7, 2002 @ 5:06 PM
the CDDA format is ment to be respected not corrupted and rejected!!! it's the best thing to happen to audio and they have to do that... it won't last long....tho..... he he..... |
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TheWitchingHour
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Date: April 7, 2002 @ 11:37 PM
Buy used ;) |
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Cryxan
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Date: April 10, 2002 @ 11:01 PM
Well pretty soon corrupt CD's will start showing up on the used market, too, as people will probably be more likely to get rid of them. |
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